Flick to remote & let the body glide
Mar. 14th, 2012 02:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaSo, Thomas Dolby is starting his Time Capsule tour tomorrow, at SXSW. For some reason, he was going to be in Houston today, and he needed a rehearsal space for their last dress rehearsal. Through a series of events involving a local radio station and possibly a time machine (not sure about that part), that final dress rehearsal turned into a no-cover show at Stereo Live (which is the most recent incarnation of one of the perennial clubs on Richmond). So of course the entire social group turned out.
The Spouse and I got there first, and were in the first 20 or so people into the club. Rather than trying to stake out space right in front of the stage, where we would be looking up, we claimed a booth with comfy seats at the back of the room - elevated, so we could see the band over the heads of the floor crowd.
The opening band was an all-male four-piece from Sugar Land, and they were derivative, but I like the bands they were derivative of (in particular, I suspect the songwriter has listened to a lot of BoDeans and Tom Petty), so it was reasonably enjoyable. And they seemed pretty enthusiastic about being there. Need to work on their stage banter, though.
Dolby was awesome, as he always is, and he seemed more comfortable being onstage with a guitarist and drummer instead of all by himself - he was much chattier and more relaxed than the last show we saw, on the Sole Inhabitant tour. The Spouse will probably post the setlist, if anyone's curious. He opened with "Commercial Breakup," which I was not expecting to hear. I think I was a few bars into the song before I realized I was using the booth railing as a crash bar; I did a lot more physical flailing (and a lot less handwork) dancing than I normally do, hanging onto the thing for support. My knees are gonna kill me tomorrow, but I don't really care.
Somewhere around "Airhead," some redhead high-fived me; the Spouse told me later that was Donna MacKenzie, local DJ extraordinaire. And some dude was taking pictures of the whole booth jumping up and down and sideways during "Hyperactive." There weren't that many other people dancing, even though Dolby chastised the crowd "If you can't dance to this, you're dead" during "Blinded Me With Science," which of course was the set closer, although they did come on for one encore - and brought a belly dancer onstage, possibly to make up for the rest of the audience. (I kind of wanted to steal her outfit; she wasn't that much smaller than me.)
He didn't do "Radio Silence," "Windpower," or "That's Why People Fall In Love," which are my three favorites of his, but he did do "One of Our Submarines," "I Love You Goodbye," and "Europa And the Pirate Twins," in addition to the above-mentioned songs, so I can't complain. It was a damn good 105-minute show, especially for something short-planned and free (except for parking).
Let's hope he schedules a show here on the next tour . . .
The Spouse and I got there first, and were in the first 20 or so people into the club. Rather than trying to stake out space right in front of the stage, where we would be looking up, we claimed a booth with comfy seats at the back of the room - elevated, so we could see the band over the heads of the floor crowd.
The opening band was an all-male four-piece from Sugar Land, and they were derivative, but I like the bands they were derivative of (in particular, I suspect the songwriter has listened to a lot of BoDeans and Tom Petty), so it was reasonably enjoyable. And they seemed pretty enthusiastic about being there. Need to work on their stage banter, though.
Dolby was awesome, as he always is, and he seemed more comfortable being onstage with a guitarist and drummer instead of all by himself - he was much chattier and more relaxed than the last show we saw, on the Sole Inhabitant tour. The Spouse will probably post the setlist, if anyone's curious. He opened with "Commercial Breakup," which I was not expecting to hear. I think I was a few bars into the song before I realized I was using the booth railing as a crash bar; I did a lot more physical flailing (and a lot less handwork) dancing than I normally do, hanging onto the thing for support. My knees are gonna kill me tomorrow, but I don't really care.
Somewhere around "Airhead," some redhead high-fived me; the Spouse told me later that was Donna MacKenzie, local DJ extraordinaire. And some dude was taking pictures of the whole booth jumping up and down and sideways during "Hyperactive." There weren't that many other people dancing, even though Dolby chastised the crowd "If you can't dance to this, you're dead" during "Blinded Me With Science," which of course was the set closer, although they did come on for one encore - and brought a belly dancer onstage, possibly to make up for the rest of the audience. (I kind of wanted to steal her outfit; she wasn't that much smaller than me.)
He didn't do "Radio Silence," "Windpower," or "That's Why People Fall In Love," which are my three favorites of his, but he did do "One of Our Submarines," "I Love You Goodbye," and "Europa And the Pirate Twins," in addition to the above-mentioned songs, so I can't complain. It was a damn good 105-minute show, especially for something short-planned and free (except for parking).
Let's hope he schedules a show here on the next tour . . .
